On day 5 of the tutorial and I think I’m growing more comfortable with the keyboard shortcuts.

I’m hoping that future versions of Xcode will have more information in the quicklook for different classes. At the minimum, they could offer a link to get more information or have example of the different styles on one page.

Accessibility

I still enjoy the promotion of accessibility at the very beginning of someone’s journey to be a better programmer. There is also a little

Error handling

When you’re learning, it can be stressful to see errors and warnings. At this point, I don’t know if it’s just a typo or because I haven’t finished all the lines that I’m supposed to be typing.

Ultimately, I had to do a diff using BBEdit to figure out where the difference was between what I wrote and what was expected. Maybe I shouldn’t code at the end of the day?

Today’s tutorial was pretty good. I did run into a small problem with specifying the destination view.

I think it’s pretty cool that I’m recognizing some of the closures in swift.

Day 3 is the third day of the tutorial.

I spent most of this time just reading over the document and I stopped myself because I want to make this a daily habit and not something that I put down and never come back to.

I’m working on the second part of the tutorial.

The autocorrect is much nicer when it is filling out items from data structures that I’ve created, but I’m still having trouble with some of the longer method signatures. I took a moment to look up a tutorial online and I think tomorrow will be much better.

Started iOS App Dev with SwiftUI Tutorials.

Why?

I know it’s my X numbered attempt to learn swift, and I gave myself so many deadlines/goals. I thought that this time would just be me attempting to learn enough to finish an app that has been haunting me for years.

I hope that by writing about my experience in the open that it will help me move forward.

The experience

I decided to set a small goal of finishing up the first steps of the tutorial

The preview in Xcode is really slow when you first start it. Some of the keyboard short cuts feel really awkward and Command clicking keywords sometime doesn’t work. This could just be me hitting ctrl on accident. The first part is supposed to take 15 minutes but I’m 25 minutes already.

I love the fact that the first thing you do after setting up the initial view is to provide accessibility.

I wish that it would point me to more information on how the different pieces work together.

I kind of cheated and used the Option-click on the different keywords and it looks like they still have a little more work in the documentation department.

Here is .accessibilityElement

Here is .accessibilityLabel

I think I’m going to have to look into making the autocomplete work more in line of other editors, because there are a lot of options and it would be colt have a way to go through them all quickly.

Afterwards, there are three questions to review.

I made this post with MarsEdit.

Well, this is a little unsettling.

There are now businesses that sell fake people. On the website Generated.Photos, you can buy a “unique, worry-free” fake person for $2.99, or 1,000 people for $1,000.

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